Vancouver’s Powell Street Festival sparks fond memories with Japanese food and entertainment

For Mike Yoshioka, Powell Street is ripe with fond childhood years memories.

Born in Aldergrove, the 48-year-old’s moms and dads brought him to the area as a kid to delight in its Japanese thrills.

“There were a bunch of little shops where you could get these candies that had a toy you could build inside of it,” rememberedYoshioka “There was also a ramen shop we would eat at.”

The Fraser Valley daddy brought his very own kids Saturday to the 47th yearly Powell Street Festival– which runs Saturday and Sunday– to share those exact same social preferences.

“We really like the sweet shaved ice (kakigori,)” he claimed.

Saturday’s celebrations consisted of Japanese food, a market of handcrafted crafts and kids’s tasks at Oppenheimer Park, where virtually 10,000 very early …